This is a personal journal documenting my studies in art - mainly just a place to keep notes and to organize my thoughts better than I could in a handwritten journal (you can't do a search in a paper journal, or post live links). My ultimate goal is oil painting, but I want to start with developing my grasp of the basics in drawing.

Thursday, March 20, 2014

1st page of Bridgman sketches

Busted out an 8.5 x 5 Moleskine and my nifty new Staedtler 2mm lead holder with 4B lead (which makes drawing really fun!) and cracked open Bridgman. From what I understand, the way to really use his books is to copy out every drawing… not sure I'll go to quite THAT extent (but I have already learned his name doesn't include an E like I did here.. )

Still rebelling against drawfromtheshoulder - even used full writing grip here (ya kinda have to in such a small journal). Feels good, though now I dislike the slim airbrushy look of today's torso study (couple posts ago). I greatly prefer the more open, linear quality of the head studies down from the shoulder. I think I'll gravitate to a hybrid approach. I just dislike the sloppy inaccuracy of using my entire arm.

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Dark Matter - we can't see it, we can't detect it, and yet it needs to be there in order for the universe to behave the way it does. Of course it's only one of many unproven theories, but here's what it means to me -- Sometimes the most important things are those we can't understand or quantify; that which remains mysterious in this modern world dominated by rational materialism.